Job 9:2

New International Reader's Version

“I’m sure that what you have said is true. But how can human beings prove to God they are not guilty?

Cross References

1 Kings 8:46

“Suppose your people sin against you. After all, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t sin. And suppose you get angry with them. You hand them over to their enemies. They take them as prisoners to their own lands. It doesn’t matter whether those lands are near or far away.

Ezra 9:15

Lord, you are the God of Israel. You are holy. You always do what is right. Today you have left many of your people alive. Here we are with all our guilt. You see the guilt of our sin. Because we have sinned, not one of us can stand in front of you.”

Job 25:4

How can human beings be right with God? How can mere people really be pure?

Job 25:5

Even the moon isn’t bright and the stars aren’t pure in God’s eyes.

Job 32:2

But Elihu the Buzite was very angry with Job. That’s because Job said he himself was right instead of God. Elihu was the son of Barakel. He was from the family of Ram.

Job 33:9

You said, ‘I’m pure. I have done no wrong. I’m clean. I’m free from sin.

Job 34:5

“Job says, ‘I’m not guilty of doing anything wrong. But God doesn’t treat me fairly.

Job 4:17

It said, ‘Can a human being be more right than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than the God who made him?

Job 9:1

Job replied,

Psalm 130:3

Lord, suppose you kept a close watch on sins. Lord, who then wouldn’t be found guilty?

Psalm 143:2

Don’t take me to court and judge me, because in your eyes no living person does what is right.

Romans 3:20

So no one will be considered right with God by obeying the law. Instead, the law makes us more aware of our sin.